Our Take On 2026 Gartner® Critical Capabilities for Privileged Access Management: Privilege Follows Responsibility
As we see it, Gartner has made time-bound privilege a core requirement of privileged access management. Just-in-time (JIT) provisioning, the ability to generate time-bound credentials in place of standing privileges, is now a mandatory capability. And, PAM must now broker temporary privileged access for machines, including AI agents.